Living

IT used to be that a trip to any of B.C.'s top summer vacation spots meant small-town, greasy spoon diners or campfire food.

Nourish Your Community: Too much fruit on your trees? If you have a hard time eating all of your fruit, don't let it go to waste. Donate it.

FEW WOULD ARGUE. One individual who's done more than most to build a successful B.C. wine industry is Sumac Ridge founder Harry McWatters, who established B.C.'s first estate winery - in Summerland, in 1979.

Mah Jong: Mondays, 10 a.m.noon at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-980-2474 or www.silverharbourcentre.com. Mah Jong: Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver.

THERE is always so much excitement around the opening of the Grouse Grind each year.

TO put the finishing touches on any new school outfit, you're going to need a backpack

Better Together contest seeks kitchen fun

FOR students and their parents, Labour Day is a lot like New Year's Day

I'M a sucker for a good massage. And it's not just something that I treat myself to on special occasions - I truly feel that massages are an important part of a person's general well being.